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Is it possible to freeze a living human being?

Dio: Is it possible to cryogenically freeze a living human being and wake him up many years later?

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3 years ago

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Well there's a company that does something similar to that.

http://www.alcor.org/index.html

  • god
  • -  4827 pts
  • -  (3 years ago)

Well, there is a theory about quickly replacing the blood with another substance which will allow freezing, or basically the stopping of time on a body. I'm not completely sure what the process was, but it was supposedly for medical purposes, such as stopping a patient from whatever until treatment can be rendered.

  • memetix
  • -  330 pts
  • -  (2 years ago)

The problem with cryogenics is that freezing a body turns the moisture in the body into ice crystals. The ice crystals cause major tissue damage.
As god mentioned above, scientists are trying to figure out a way to replace the body's fluids with a fluid that won't freeze into crystals. While replacing the fluids in the major veins and arteries wouldn't be that tricky, there doesn't seem to be a way to replace all the water that's locked up in all the cells of the body. Until that happens, cryogenics will remain science fiction.

Some people, including Walt Disney, have had their corpses frozen in hopes that the technology of the future will be able to successfully revive them.

felixthecat's Avatar

People of the future will not want to revive any of these people. Why bother, unless they need a slave, a meal, or a history lesson. And in the last case, most people are too stupid or ignorant to be of much use.

 

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